Anonymous wrote:I put a request into DOT after we got a detour routed into our formerly pretty sleepy street and now tons of cars zoom around - and we're in a stretch without sidewalks, with tons of kids. I'm being told funds are still being released for the study nearly a year after my request. Started CC'ing government officials, but am both angry and frankly worried about my own and other kids who ride bikes and scooters and often walk to school near us. The detour is expected to last another 2 years. Ideas for what I can do to either speeds up the study, get my neighbors who are more elderly and oppose sidewalks to change their mind - or add DIY traffic calming measures?

Anonymous wrote:You didn't say where you are but presuming you are in DC I believe there are 1400 sidewalk gaps in the queue right now.

And the possible problem, from your perspective, is that often filling in these gaps turns out to be highly contentious.

The design work isn't difficult and in almost all circumstances the sidewalks are going on public land so there are no legal issues but DDOT expends ridiculous amounts of time on design and public process to appease the loud objectors.

Alternately they may instead expend the funds on sidewalks where they aren't dealing with objections from unhappy residents.